http://auctionbytes.com By Ina Steiner October 09, 2007
An eBay moderater apologized to users on a Trust & Safety discussion board over an incident that took place on Friday in which a hacker was able to suspend some member accounts. He explained, "This fraudster found very old administrative functions that had not been deactivated several years ago when we changed the security of our internal systems. These functions were still accessible on public servers, while the rest of our functionality is now behind multiple layers of security. We immediately identified the functions that he accessed and deactivated, and we are undergoing an audit to ensure obsolete code that may still exist for other reasons is secure."
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